W. SCHAUS 9 



Type. — cf, Sixola River, Costa Rica. September. Xo. 14,989, 

 U. S. National Museum. 



Dirphia aphrodite sp. n. 



cf . Head, collar, and front of thorax fuscous brown; thorax behind dark 

 reddish browii. Abdomen above black with fine orange brown segmental 

 lines; base clothed with dark reddish hairs; sublateral whitish streaks. Fore 

 wings rosy hlacine brown before antemedial and beyond postmedial lines; 

 basal space limited by the antemedial line, outbent across cell and shghtly 

 curved to inner margin; medial space dark chestnut brown, paler from vein 

 2 to inner margin; a sinuous, white spot containing some brown scaling on 

 discocellular, its hind edge straight, toothed to base of vein .3, and outwardly 

 across postmedial hne; postmedial line straight, fine, lilacine, parallel with 

 termen; a subterminal fuscous gray shade expanding towards costa. Hind 

 wings grayish brown; the inner margin with roseate hairs; a postmedial 

 darker brown curved shade; an irregular and indistinct subterminal shade. 

 Wings below whitish bro\\-n; the browni postmedial Hne straight on both wings; 

 the cell and costal margin of fore wings and termen of hind wings shaded with 

 brown. Expanse, 48 mm. 



Habitat: Curitiba, .southeastern Brazil. 



Megalopygidae 

 Repnoa arpi sp. n. 



c/'. Body black; abdomen with segmental whitish Unes. Fore wings black 

 to end of cell, terminating obhquely from costa to vein 5, with a small black 

 spot between 5 and 4, a shghtly larger spot between 4 and 3, an incurve be- 

 tween 3 and 2, a slight projection below 2, and above submedian. then inset 

 and abrupt on inner margin; terminal space pale brownish ocher, with slightly 

 darker subterminal patches on interspaces; an outer small black spot between 

 veins 6 and 7. Hind wings: basal third black, otherwise whitish ocher brown. 

 Wings below with the terminal space white. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Habitat: Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



TRANS. .\M. EiVT. SOC, XLI. 



